Amy Balentine, Ph.D.
Owner and Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Balentine works with children, teens, and adults who are willing to step into nature-based and mindfulness work, especially to treat issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, relationship challenges, and dysregulation. She integrates a number of evidence-based interventions into therapy, including EMDR, Mindful Self-Compassion practices, Somatic therapy, CBT, play therapy, ACT, DBT, and IFS.
She is a mindfulness teacher and has trained at UCSD Center for Mindfulness, where she has taught a mindful self-compassion program for children she co-developed with fellow teacher Lorraine Hobbs. They are also the co-authors of the Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids published in 2022.
She is passionate about addressing the mind-body within the ecology of the local landscape. She has found mindfulness to be a healing, grounding, and connecting way of relating to herself and the world and shares mindfulness practices both in therapy and in mindfulness meditation classes, retreats, and trainings for professionals as well as students at area schools. She practices ecotherapy at area parks, trails and gardens throughout the Memphis area. She also brings clients to “Mindfulness Meadows.” an area garden created and tended by the center clinicians to bring horticulture therapy and nature connection into counseling sessions.
Education
Dr. Balentine has a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Kentucky in 2002 and completed her internship at the Professional Psychology Internship Consortium at UT in 2001. She also completed her fellowship in developmental disabilities from UT in 2003.
Interests
When not working, she spends time birding, gardening, walking her dog, and finding other ways to spend time in nature while connecting with friends, her husband and two young adult children.
Contact
amy.balentine@mc4ml.com
901-537-2900
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